Anthony Stinson stabbed Charlotte Wilcock to death in her own home as her child slept upstairs
A man who murdered a lone mother-of-two in her Lancashire home as her infant child slept upstairs rapped about killing someone just an hour before the attack, police said.
Ms Wilcock’s 15-month-old daughter was left alone upstairs until police officers discovered her the next day.When police arrested him, Stinson, of Queen Victoria Street, Blackburn, said he had been suffering from psychosis when he attacked Ms Wilcock and claimed to have seen the Devil. CCTV footage also showed that just 15 minutes earlier, he made conversation with a local shopkeeper while buying alcohol and cigarettes.
Speaking outside of court, detective chief inspector Mark Haworth-Oates, of Lancashire Police, said: “On March 3 this year Stinson approached Charlotte’s address and, for reasons known only to him, launched a brutal attack on her on the doorstep.
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